+- kanji koohii FORUM (http://forum.koohii.com)
+-- Forum: Learning Japanese (http://forum.koohii.com/forum-4.html)
+--- Forum: The Japanese language (http://forum.koohii.com/forum-10.html)
+--- Thread: Looking for a little help on this sentence... (/thread-10502.html)
Looking for a little help on this sentence... - tchls1 - 2013-02-09
Hey everyone, I'm a pretty new student of Japanese, about one year now. I've been trying to create sentences but I'm a little stuck on one. What I came up with was this:
I went to school and studied for a test at the library.
My translation was:
Gakkou ni itte, toshokan de skiken no tameno benkyoushimasu.
Problem is, it doesn't seem quite right. I think I'm doing something wrong with the tameno/ tameni section. Also, I'm trying to keep it formal, hence the -masu.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Looking for a little help on this sentence... - Zgarbas - 2013-02-09
It is tame ni.
Tame no is used when it is a noun for the sake of something (A book for the purpose of helping children -> 子供を助けられるのための本）, I can't really think of any exceptions to that.
Also, it's べんきょうしていました、or at least べんきょうしました since it's in the past tense.